Kudo-kai's "succession ceremony": No. 2 chairman Yasushi Goto appointed as 6th chairman?

According to an interview with the Fukuoka Prefectural Police, it appears that a succession ceremony for the chairman of Kudo-kai (Kitakyushu City), a designated organized crime group, was held on October 31st at the Tamura-gumi office of Taishukai (Tagawa City), a designated organized crime group, in Kanzaki, Fukuchi-cho, Fukuoka Prefecture.

Many people related to organized crime groups gathered, and investigators from the prefectural police and the Metropolitan Police Department inspected the area around the scene.

According to prefectural police, Yasushi Goto (51), the No. 2 chairman of the Kudo-kai, appears to have become the sixth chairman. Prefectural police are carefully confirming the departure of Fumio Tagami (70), the top executive and fifth-generation chairman.

Tagami was charged with violating the Organized Crime Punishment Act (organized attempted murder) in connection with multiple attacks on citizens, including the stabbing of a nurse, and is currently appealing his sentence of life imprisonment.

In March, other organized crime groups were informed in a letter that the Kudo-kai's top leader, Satoru Nomura (79), was sentenced to life in prison, pending an appeal.

Prefectural police determined that the top position had changed from Nomura to Tagami. In an official gazette dated July 16, the Prefectural Public Safety Commission changed the Kudo-kai's "representative" from Nomura to Tagami.

According to the prefectural police, organized crime groups are not allowed to use external venues such as hotels due to the prefecture's organized crime exclusion ordinance. Furthermore, since many of the offices of the Kudo-kai have already been demolished, it is believed that they used an office affiliated with the Taishu-kai, which is a social organization.